Connery’s accent in ‘The Untouchables’ voted worst of all time

October 2nd, 2009 The buzz is that Victoria Beckham and her soccer star husband David Beckham are taking speech lessons. The duo has come to the conclusion that if they want to boost their showbiz careers in the U.S, they need to brush their accent.

September 30th, 2009 ANTONIO BANDERAS' action film BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER has topped a new poll to find the worst film of the past decade.

September 29th, 2009 ERIN BROCKOVICH has been voted the greatest movie heroine of all time. The single mum lawyer, played by Julia Roberts in the 2000 drama based on a real-life story, fights to gain compensation for victims of contaminated drinking water - and Brockovich has come out as moviegoers' favourite fighting woman.

September 12th, 2009 On a recent poll for a fantasy school, Robert Pattinson emerged as the top winner on the fantasy teacher list. Fans have voted for him as their dream teacher and they claim that they would work very hard to get good grades if he was their English literature teacher.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood legend Sir Sean Connery's Irish-American accent in 1987 film "The Untouchables" has been voted the worst of all time in a poll by a US ticket agency. The former James Bond star played a cop in the hit movie and won an Oscar for his turn despite failing to lose his native Scottish dialect, reports contactmusic.com.

August 31st, 2009 SIR SEAN CONNERY's Irish-American accent in 1987 film THE UNTOUCHABLES has been voted the worst of all time in a new poll. The former James Bond star played a cop in the hit movie and received an Academy Award for his turn - despite failing to lose his native Scottish dialect.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - Jordan, a.k.a Katie Price, has topped the most annoying celebrity Twitter user list, says a new poll. According to the survey, headed by one-poll.com, 4,000 Twitter users voted the glamour girl, who has been using the social networking website to slam her estranged husband Peter Andre, who was placed second in the list.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Victoria Beckham was said to have lived up to her Spice Girls' nickname "Posh" after speaking in an accent resembling that of Queen Elizabeth II in a recent interview. The former singer was interviewed by Sky News presenter Eamonn Holmes, who noticed that the star had ditched her Essex-style vowels.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - The lip lock between actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in the movie "Cruel Intentions" was voted the best lesbian kiss of all time in a poll conducted by a movie website. Thesun.co.uk reports that the kiss from the movie released in 1999 beat the one between Neve Campbell and Denise Richards in "Wild Things" from 1998.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - American action-drama TV series "24" has been voted as the most addictive series of all time, according to a new online poll. More than 3,000 film and TV fans have placed "24", which stars Kiefer Sutherland as federal agent Jack Bauer, at the top of a list of the most compelling shows ever, including "Lost" and "Friends" on the second and third spot respectively, reports imdb.com.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hollywood star Johnny Depp has revealed that he and beauty Marion Cotillard spoke to each other in French on sets of 'Public Enemies' so that film's cast and crew members don't understand what they were talking about. He said: "We would sometimes speak French to each other on the set, especially when we didn't want anyone else to know what we were saying!" However, after a point of time the 33-year-old actress grew tired of speaking in her native language because she felt it was affecting her acting, reports The China Daily.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Johnny Depp has been named the dream celebrity camping companion in a new poll. The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star's wild ways and rugged looks helped him make the celebrity most people would love to share a tent with at a rock festival.

June 10th, 2009 LONDON - English actress Emily Blunt's ability to pick up an American accent on the spot has helped to land more roles in Hollywood. Blunt, 26, who became famous for her roles as the young Queen Victoria and as an icy English fashion magazine assistant in 'The Devil Wears Prada', will be appearing in a new movie 'Sunshine Clearing'.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - A scene from Hollywood actress Julia Roberts' classic film Pretty Woman has been voted Britain's favourite movie moment of all time. The 1990 picture won Roberts a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination and now a sequence from the movie has seen off competition from other films to top the survey by the Turner Classic Movies Channel, reports contactmusic.com.

May 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and wildchild Lindsay Lohan's mother have been named worst potential mother-in-laws in the world in a new poll. Although neither of the celebrities have kids who have wed, they still have managed to top the list of nightmare mums.